Rubio: "You don't run for president with some eject button in the cockpit"

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(voice-over): We caught up with Marco Rubio in Manchester, New Hampshire, his first foray to the first in the nation primary state since the last presidential election.

It's likely to be the first of many. Rubio is doing everything he needs to do to prepare for a presidential run, campaigning for Republicans across the country, hiring national staff, raising lots of money and even writing a book on his vision for America.

(on camera): It seems obvious you're moving closer to running for president?

RUBIO: I've openly said in the past that it's something I will consider at the end of this year, that I'll look at a number of factors, personal factors, but also, uh, whether I could best promote this message and -- and actually put in place these ideas that I want to see put in place, whether I could best do that from the presidency as opposed to the Senate.

KARL: He told us if he decides to run for president, there is no backup plan. The day he announces he is running, he would announce he is not seeking reelection to the Senate.

RUBIO: If I decide to run for president, I will not have some sort of exit strategy to run -- to run for the Senate. And that...

KARL: That will be a decision not to run for reelection?

RUBIO: I believe that if you want to be president of the United States, you run for president.

KARL: It's all or nothing?

RUBIO: You don't run for president with some eject button in the cockpit that -- that -- that allows you to go on an exit ramp if it doesn't work out.

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